Courtesy of Japanese Para-Sports Association

Films and videos serve as time machines. Surveying documentary footage from the past offers opportunities to ascertain what it is in them that differs from the present point, as well as convey that our present time too ̶ while it may be taken for granted as what seems the natural outcome ̶ will itself change and “from a future perspective become the past.” The Tokyo Paralympic Games, held concurrently with the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, served not only to promote athletics among those with disabilities, but also offered a first step in orienting awareness toward building a society in which diversity is universally recognized by all. With documentary footage of the Paralympic Games as a point of reference, this symposium will focus on what it was that the Games introduced to the present and to the future, as well as consider the significance of documentary archival footage.

Date: 2020.2.14 Fri.18:00-20:00 (open 17:45)

Venue: Auditorium of the Maison franco-japonaise

*Entry to the following symposium is free of charge, but a numbered ticket is required. Numbered tickets will be distributed starting on the day of the symposium at 5 PM at the 1 st floor information desk of the Maison franco-japonaise.

Panelists: NAKAMORI Kunio [Executive Assistant for President, Japanese Paralympic Committee, Japanese Para-Sports Association] / NIWA Yoshiyuki [Associate Professor, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, The University of Tokyo]

Presenter/Moderator: SHINODA Katsuhide [Executive Director / President of Cultural Activities Committiee of the Maison franco-japonaise] / OKAMURA Keiko [Curator, Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions / Tokyo Photographic Art Museum]

Courtesy of NHK Public Welfare Organization